Culture

Self-portrait of Nicolas Mahler at his desk

Nicolas Mahler
Draw Kafka for me

Nicolas Mahler is a comic illustrator whose book “Komplett Kafka” (Completely Kafka) is published in Kafka’s centenary year, and it will tour as an exhibition. Ulrich Fügener spoke with Nicolas Mahler – about comics, Kafka, humour and melancholy.

Building Sustainably
Carbon Europe

Word! The Language Column
AI: Shattering Language Barriers

pass the microphone to those who are already feeling the consequences of climate change
Pass The Mic movement

Topics

A robot reads a book on artificial intelligence

Perspective future

The world is going through a phase of profound upheaval. The climate crisis demands a rapid and consistent change towards a sustainable way of life - and increasing digitalisation is changing all general conditions.

How do we want to live? How can justice be achieved for all generations?

Europe and the world

From feminism to the LGBTIQIA+ movement to postcolonial debates, people in Europe and around the world are demanding recognition, justice and participation. At the same time, these efforts are threatened by shrinking spaces of freedom, increasing radicalism and multiple crises.

What can living together in solidarity in inclusive, pluralistic societies look like? What role can Europe play here?

Visual Comic-Residency Anna Haifisch 2021

Residency programmes

The Goethe-Institut wants to offer a "space for new perspectives" with its residency programmes and invites artists and cultural workers every year to live and work for a time in another country and another culture. Information in German, French and Dutch.

Projects

The language column
Word!

How does one find one's way around the rules of the German language, where do new words come from, and what are the most important changes in the use of the language - for example through digitalisation and sensitisation with regard to the gender issue? These and other exciting topics are the subject of our column on the German language.

Comics

Comics from Belgium determined the face of European pictorial history in the 20th century. Today, German comic artists are also searching for new narrative forms.

Blog, engage, act!

Young people around the world have been taking to the streets for more climate justice since 2018. What drives them? What ideas do they have for the future? And how do they get organized? Eight bloggers and activists from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain explore these questions for Blog, Engage, Act!